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Home Depot lost information for 56 million cards By now, you've probably heard of - and forgotten - Home Depot's security breach, announced this past fall. You probably know that 56 million payment cards were compromised in an attack that began in April but wasn't detected until September. And you probably know that this followed…

Windows yesterday published a critical security bulletin addressing a vulnerability that, according to researches at IBM, has been "sitting in plain sight." Microsoft has also released an update to patch the vulnerability. IBM reported the bug privately to Microsoft in May, noting that it "could allow remote code execution if an attacker sends" a very specific set of…

What does Heartbleed mean for you, and what can you do? Heartbleed - the name of the latest internet threat - may sound like something out of a horror film, but given our reliance on the web today and the extent of the bug's impacts, that may not be so far off. Security experts have…